ABSTRACT
IT appears to me that Butler's work as a moralist must be ranked extremely high. The writer with whom one naturally compares him in this respect is Kant, and I do not think that he suffers by comparison with the great German thinker. As a pure metaphysician Kant is, of course, unrivalled; but it seems to me that in ethics Butler has stated all that is valuable in Kant's teaching with much greater clearness and far less paradox and pedantry. Now the resemblance between these two great men goes further than this. Kant was interested in establishing a kind of moral theology, and Butler in the Analogy is busied with the same task. Here, I think, Butler has been definitely more successful than Kant, and I propose in this paper to give a sketch and some criticisms of his moral theology.
